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  • SharePoint System Dialogs and Customized MasterPages

    Anyone who has tried to brand and customize SharePoint know what kind of madness and headaches that go along with it. Just when you think that your masterpage looks good you click into a deep dark subpage that makes your layout look hideous. Although things were made easier in 2010, for some reason I could never get the modal dialog pages look quite right. I finally determined that I wanted to just have those look OTB. I still wanted the system pages to have the branding, i just wanted to remove my branding from the dialogs. so with a little jaavscript/jquery calls, viola. First off you need to have set your branded system master page up with the proper class="s4-notdlg". This will allow sharepoint to hide headers, footers, quicklaunch, etc. But this doesn't remove the margins, paddings, and special layouts that may throw off the dialog layout. Mine, for instance, looked like this...

  • Hide The Default SharePoint Content Libraries/Lists *HACK*

    Recently for a client I created a custom Document Library that is specific to their organization. After creating it I wanted to hide the standard document library that comes with SharePoint. I don't want to delete it, just hide it so it can't be accidentally created. Here in lies my problem. I search high and low for a possible solution. While waiting to here back from the SharePoint blog team, I decided try and find a workaround. This is what I came up with.